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A STORY OF EVERGLADES.
Recalled by the .Transfer of Billy
Bowiegs's Last Befuge to
Private Owners.
Allanta Journal.
Up to a few years ago all that
was^known of that vast inland see
the southern border of Geosgia
called the Okesenokee Swan**? was
that it had once been the strong
hold of "Billy Bowlegs." . Even
those who had heard the euphoni
ous name often enough to form
some idea as to the topograph of
the swamp, received an entirely
erroneous impression of its
character. They regarded it as a
mere waste of malarial waters,
like the Everglades of Florida or
the ^Dismal Swamp of Virginia.
Within the past two years
however, tue invasion of capital
into the recesses of its cypress
. and magnolia groves has revealed
a wealth of natural resources un
. surpassed, and Bhown that instead
of being an impenetrable swamp,
the Okesenokee is a gieat inland
sea of very much the same type in
, the quality of its water as Lake
j Superior.
Away back in the early days of
the century, just prior to. the
Seminole war, Gen^, Clinch of
Georgia marched into Florida and
penetrated the everglades with a
regiment of soldiers, his purpose
being tcT induce the Sominole
chiefs to sign a treaty .relinquish
ing their possessions to the Gov
ernment. He pitched his . tent
in the heart of the swamp, and
invited the Indian chieftains to
a conference at which they were
to sign the papers ceding the land
to the United States. The chief
bf-the Seminoles at thai time was
a halfbreed named Smith-a man
of strikingly handsome ap
pearance over six feet in height
and as straight as an arrow. Thie
leader, together, with two of hifi
sub-chiefs was standing, in Gen.
Clinch's tent listening to the read
ing of the deed which took away
.their laudSjOlf At the conclusion ol
the reading the two 3ub-ceiefs wht:
could neither read nor write
made their , marks Turning tc
Smith, who stood in contemplative
mood, gazig with fixed eyes upon
the papers before them, Ger
Clinch asked:
"You . can write your nam
Smith?"
"Yes," he replied, quickly, but
this is one time when I intend t
make my mark."
Quick ?is thought, the powerful
half-breed. whipped out a long
keen knife and lightning-like
buried it to the hilt in tE?\ hear!
, of one of the sub-chiefs, then in
that of the others and finally in
the breast of the Government
agent, killing the three ' almost
instantly.
The soldiers about Gen. Clinch
flew to arms and were in the act
. of making Smith their prisoner
. when he calmly called to them to
look outside the tent. Doing so,
they found" the camp completely
surrounded by a band of at least
3,000 Indian braves ready to 'obey
their chief's command. Smith did
not order the massacre of the com
pany but without as much as
harming a hair of the head of
Gen. Clinch or any of his solders
marched them to the edge of the
--swamp and in parting said :
"Now. G?n. Clinch, you and
your soldiers may go, but I warn
you that if ever a white man
places his foot upon our lands
again he had better beware of the
Seminoles."
As Gen.' Clinch marched his
- men away the In i an braves j
enthusiastically [crowded about
th eir great chief, aud raising him
high upon their shoulders, cried
out in a mighty chorns, ^Osceola I
Osce?la 1" whioh means "the rising
sun.'\This was the beginning of
the Seminole war, and it wa " in
this way the half-breed chieftain
received the name by which he is
known to history.
The end of.his career is* familiar
to all. The manner in which he
was enticed to Washington, where
he attracted much attention and
was the observed-of all observers,"
under cover of a flag of truce and
confinement until his death in
Fort Moultrie, at Charleston, are
remembered.
Smith's sucessor in command of
the Seminoles was Billy Bowlegs
a chief of diminutive stature but
undaunted courage. During
the war which followed Billy found
refuge in Okefenokee Swamp, and
one of the principal islands of this
inland sea now bears his name.
Okefenokee Swamp was, until
1390, the property at the State of
Georgia. An act of the Legislature,
approved in ?October, 1889,
provided for the sale of the
swamp i& the highest bidder, the
minimum price being fixed at 12?
cents an acre. When the bids
were opened by Gov. Gordon on
March 18,1690, that offering 26*
cents per acre was accepted.
A' ladv has been appointed pro
fessor of elocufion in King's Col- J
lege, England.
Speaker Crisp thinks the Sher
man law will he repealed and he
favors the repeal of the 10 per
cent, tax on .State banks.
In the medioval and modern
languages tripos at Cambridge the
the man are outdone by the
vf oman. Not a single man gained
a first class honor, wherever two
women were placed in that class.
. Speaking of the Sherman silver
law the other day in Chicago,
Senator John Sherman, the father
of the law, said : "There never has
been a .time since the law of 1860
was passed that I would not have
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